​Please join Janet Stickmon for a reading of To Black Parents Visiting Earth: Raising Black Children in the 21st Century and a parenting workshop for parents of children of African/African American descent. Come exchange ideas about how we can raise our Black children to be happy, confident, and resilient.​“There's so much to laud here, but I'm most taken by the lushness and specificity of the language. All of our senses are taken care of as Stickmon makes us feel, not just what it feels like to be a Black parent or Black child, but the actual intimate and terrifying space between child and parent, between Black childhood and Black adulthood. To Black Parents Visiting Earth will last… it will set the tone for parental studies in this country. I've never read anything like this book." —Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy: An American Memoir

Janet Stickmon is a professor of humanities at Napa Valley College. She is the author of Crushing Soft Rubies—A Memoir and Midnight Peaches, Two O’Clock Patience—A Collection of Essays, Poems, and Short Stories on Womanhood and the Spirit. Stickmon’s essays have appeared in The Huffington Post, Mutha Magazine, Read to Write Stories, Positively Filipino, and Red and Yellow, Black and Brown: Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies (Rutgers University Press, 2017).Stickmon is the founder of the Black Leaders and Mentorship Program and an educator trainer with Acosta Educational Partnership. For over 20 years, Stickmon’s work as as an educator, writer, and performer has influenced thousands of adults and teens across the country.

Endangered Species, Enduring Values is a cultural anthology of the real San Francisco Bay Area: the seldom-heard 58% who are residents of color in the nation’s most diverse and progressive region. It features prose, poetry and artwork by over 70 established and emerging writers and artists, physicians, educators, union workers, and activists with roots in Native America, Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and elsewhere. The contributors, including current SF Poet Laureate Kim Shuck, touch on union work, the LGBT community, mental health, housing, and more.

Containing over 150 pieces the anthology addresses:

In challenging times, how do heritage, history, or spirituality inspire you as a person of color?

What sustains you and keeps you working for a just and inclusive society?

What do you want the world to know about your heritage or community?

With 70 pages of colored art and photos, the anthology paints the complex and personal truths of San Francisco Bay Area artists of color.

Rose Berryessa is a former elementary health educator and community gardener. Clara Hsu is the director of Clarion Music Performing Arts Center. Shirley Huey is a graduate of UC Berkeley and NYU Law and a fellow of VONA/Voices and Kearny Street Workshop Interdisciplinary Writers Lab. Dena Rod illuminates their diasporic experiences of Iranian American heritage and queer identity, while combating negative stereotypes of their intersecting identities.Shizue Seigel, Endangered Species editor, is a Japanese American writer and artist. Her five books include Standing Strong! Fillmore & Japantown, and In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans during the Internment.Sriram Shamasunder is a poet, physician, cofounder/director of UCSF’s HEAL initiative.Amos White is an awarded American haiku poet and author and produces literary readings and creative salons.

Daughter of artist, Xu Fangfang will hold a book signing and introduce her memoir. Galloping Horses: Artist Xu Beihong and His Family in Mao’s China. Xu describes how Xu Beihong’s family and legacy survived the turbulence of Mao’s ever-changing policies, which dictated the direction of art and music from 1949 through the turbulent ten-year Cultural Revolution. This book offers untold experiences of Xu Beihong during this period. Please visit www. BeihongChinaArts.comXu Beihong (1895-1953) is widely known as the father of modern Chinese painting. The human feelings and Chinese aesthetics in his art have moved the hearts of many viewers throughout the world. Xu Beihong pioneered China's art education. He was the first Chinese artist to systematically incorporate high-standard Western sketching from life and oil painting into the curricula at China’s major art institutions. From 1927 until his death in 1953, he trained several generations of Chinese artists.

Author Xu FangfangBorn and raised in Beijing, China, Xu Fangfang moved to the U.S. in 1981 and earned a B.A. in history from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.B.A. from Stanford University. In 2000, she became the founding director of the music department at Renmin University of China. She helped initiate and facilitate the first comprehensive solo U.S. exhibition of her father Xu Beihong’s work, presented by the Denver Art Museum, Oct. 2011-Jan. 2012. She has published several articles on Xu Beihong and his art, including “Xu Beihong, Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting” in Arts of Asia 42, no. 1 (2012), and “Xu Beihong’s Life and Art” in Xu Beihong: Pioneer of Modern Chinese Painting, Denver Art Museum, 2011.